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974: Why I Left the USA - Part 1

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Hard Work and Challenges Lead to Growth

Value hard work as a means to achieve success rather than settling for low productivity and easy living. Accepting free money or an easy lifestyle can diminish motivation and hinder personal growth. Embrace challenges and difficult tasks as they lead to personal development and the ability to achieve greater things in life.

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It should be a means to an end rather than an end in and of itself. You don't want to get accustomed to low earnings, low productivity, relaxed lifestyle, et cetera. I don't see that stuff as being positive. And you want to be really careful about putting yourself in that. Kind of the same problem with welfare, right? We know that welfare damages men. When you're given free money, easy money, easy life, you lose your motivation. You lose your motivation. And yet the same thing happens when you set yourself up on easy street. All of us would much rather sit on the couch and eat salty foods, salty high calorie, fake food that somebody else paid for for us. But if you start sitting on the couch and eating salty high calorie food that someone else bought for you, then a few months later, you can't get up off the couch. And so most of the good things in life worth having require you to go out and do something hard to face something difficult. And yet in so doing, that changes you for the good and makes you capable of going and doing more things.

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